Yet Italian amusement company Zamperla knows how to fight, too, and is now warning of an empty boardwalk next summer if the companies don’t scram, according to the Post. Even if the businesses’ legal challenges prevent Zamperla from having new boardwalk shops ready to go by opening day, the company would sooner keep them shuttered than allow its new nemeses back in.

The businesses don’t entirely blame Zamperla, either:

Anthony Berlingieri, owner of Shoot the Freak and Beer Island bar, ripped Zamperla, saying the company wants “the properties at any cost, even if it means an empty boardwalk.”

He also accused the Bloomberg administration of being “two-faced,” saying “city officials are letting Zamperla make Coney Island go dark” but in previous years had pressured developer Joe Sitt, the boardwalk businesses’ former landlord, to renew their leases to avoid an empty beachfront.